Re: Improving Leonidas Backgrounds

From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>

To: Fedora Art List <fedora-art-list redhat com>

Subject: Re: Improving Leonidas Backgrounds

Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:49:29 +0530

Martin Sourada wrote:
> Hmm... I can add that, but given that today is the final freeze (not
> sure when exactly and whether any build I would have done today would
> make it in) and this would not end up on the release CD/DVDs either, I
> doubt I could ask for a freeze break just to add one subpackage (with
> the wallpapers with lion on single screens as well). I think I have only
> these two options:
> 1. wait if we are gonna do some further bugfixes to the artwork and add
> them with it, or
> 2. make this a zero day update (note it would mean about 8MiB of updates
> for _every_ user of leonidas-backgrounds, unless F11 would be Presto
> enabled)
>
> Any better insights, suggestions, ideas?
Add a sub package and ask rel-eng for a exception to the freeze. The
point of the freeze is to avoid destabilization. A artwork subpackage is
not going to hurt anybody at all.
Rahul